All students need an opportunity to refocus, regain composure, reflect, or just take a moment to release stress. By providing a designated and well thought out space in the classroom for students to do just that, you can reduce classroom disruptions, teach self regulation, and provide opportunities

Do you have students on your caseload that have trouble determining how big or small their problems are? They might get very upset when they are told no or lose in a game? Or constantly over-react to small issues?
I do! So I created this packet that will help your students better understand their p

This is a collection of children showing different emotions. The emotions shown in this set are:
angry, confused, proud, sad, excited, shy, content, embarrassed, happy, scared, shocked, worried.
This set contains all of the images shown.
48 images (24 color and the same 24 in B&W)
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This is a collection of engaging, activities for fluency therapy! Low-prep, and lots of fun! This product is positive and supportive to students struggling with fluency disorders. It helps teach fluency strategies and provides many opportunities for practice with a positive and reassuring attitude.

Special Education Behavior Reflection: Think Sheet: This is a great tool for special education and general education students who need to reflect on their behavior and learn to make better choices. This can be used in the special education class as well as in inclusion. The "Think Sheet" helps stu

The end of the day can be crazy. These pre-written notes are a quick, yet fantastic way to send students out the door on a positive note {aren’t I punny?!}
This is a pack of 12 different “Good Notes” that can be used to encourage school to home communication. Simply print a stack of each. File a

This visual choice board is a simple resource for your special education or inclusion classroom. Providing a student with this handy file folder visual support may allow him to express his needs without having to find the words.
While this visual was designed for students with autism, it can be

An entire social group curriculum for a year! This huge 80 page packet includes everything from starting up your first social group to providing engaging and organized lessons (with all materials needed) for 20 sessions. Your students will be learning functional, real-life skills needed in order to

This engaging and interactive back to school activity will make an amazing addition to your get-to-know-you fun! There are a variety of options to choose from to make it work for your classroom! :)
Options Included:
*Class Puzzle {Whole Group}
*Small Group Team Puzzle {3 Different Puzzles}
*Take H

This is a collection of children demonstrating manners. The images are designed to demonstrate the following: take turns, keep hands to yourself, be kind, listen, cover your mouth, raise your hand, share, say please and thank you.
*This is an older style set and images are not consistent with curre

I am always searching for new ways to address pragmatic skills with my students who struggle socially, AND I work with special ed. teachers who are always looking for ways to address social and behavior skills with their students.
Well, who doesn't love a super hero? They always make good choices

Intervention and Special Education: This Intervention Toolbox has everything you need to design and implement special education academic and behavioral interventions. This is great for special education, RTI, general education, Teacher Assistance Teams, and other intervention teams, etc. These rea

“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore!”
Learning social skills can feel like the journey to the Emerald City. Join Dorothy and her friends on the yellow brick road and practice a variety of social skills.
page 5: Parent Letter
page 6: Reference Poster
page 7: YouTube links for sho

This 56 page packet is filled with many different friendship building activities that are perfect to do at the beginning of the year, or to do alongside your Social Studies or Health curriculum.
In this packet you will find:
-a unique friendship story
-friendship building activities and a problem-

The mind + heart Social Emotional Learning Curriculum includes 8 units with 5+ detailed, character education, research-based LESSONS filled with TONS of hands-on and mindful activities that encourage children to express themselves and build important social emotional and social responsibility skills

This social skills pack features activities for Thanksgiving. For more information and previews visit SpeechRoomNews.blogspot.com.
Social Problem Solving (16 cards) Each card contains a social situation that could take place at Thanksgiving. Determine what you should do.
Thanksgiving Idioms (12

This activity teaches kids how to identify whether something is within their control or not, which can be useful for kids with anxiety, anger, lack of focus, motivation, or other social & emotional concerns. There are 3 separate sets of instructions for individual counseling, small groups, and

Do your students tattle a lot? Do they not understand what is and is not a tattle? Here is a great set of activities to use with the book, "A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue." Included in this download are a variety of cut and paste, coloring, writing, and drawing activities for various levels of learn

Do your students have a difficult time having conversations with peers or adults?
Practice positive communication skills with the Conversations-Go-Around Game! Perfect for small groups or individual counseling sessions.
The 40 unique conversation prompts make great ice breakers and journaling prom

** Update: Please see my store for NEW Social Stories materials! Picture books, Flip Books, and Social Stories full-page Bundles #2 and #3! **
Are you a Special Educator or a General Education teacher with some unique needs in your classroom? This bundle is just the thing to get you started using

50 short social/behavior lessons for students PreK-1st grade!
These very quick and easy lessons cover almost all of your needs for teaching basic skills to be successful in the classroom and school. They engage students because students can be active participants in the lesson through coloring, fin

This activity set includes 8 reproducible pages to target fixed and growth mindset using the book The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt.
Included:
1. T-Chart for what fixed versus growth mindset sounds like and looks like
2. 2 column sort for fixed and growth mindset for the crayons
Close sen

Sometimes we have to disguise learning into games! Students love Candyland®, but don't always like talking about bullying, anger control, or problem-solving.
Students of all ability levels love moving their piece along the same Candyland® board they've come to know and love, and hardly even realiz

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This unit resource includes organizers/lesson support for:
-2 student covers for packet
-Unit Intro- What do you already know about drugs and alcohol?
-What are drugs?
-Safe Drugs/Medicines are sometimes used to help us get better if we are sick
-Being res

Print off resource that includes video links, book suggestions, question cards, reader, flip book, posters, awards, and student printables. Students will learn that the brain is a muscle to exercise and success comes with effort.
Everyday my students and I have family time. During this family tim

Social Skills - How Would You Feel?
Social Skills: How Would You Feel ? - This is a social skills resource to help teach children to understand their feelings and emotions, and will also help them relate to the feelings of others. This activity book contains a game and graphic organizers. I have i

This activity complements the book "The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes" by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein. This story lends itself well to discussions about growth mindset and learning from mistakes.
This set of activities is especially useful at the beginning of the year, when establishing your class

This is an expansion of my Growth Mindset Interactive PowerPoint, and explores growth mindset in more depth by breaking apart key components and teaching them through fun, interactive PowerPoints. Each lesson gives students a little more insight into what having a growth mindset really means!
Oth

Behavior Calendar - Monthly Calendar - Editable Calendar
I created these Behavior and Monthly Calendars to give my students a quick and easy way to document daily behavior. You will find them easy to edit to fit your own needs.
UPDATED: This file contains JUNE 2018-DECEMBER 2019.
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Looking to improve receptive and expressive language and attending skills while teaching about feelings? Then interactive books are for you! These interactive books require the student(s) to move the pictures and participate.This active participation improves attending skills while reducing off task

This low-prep 10-session friendship social skills elementary school counseling small group counseling program aims to empower students to maintain positive friendships by teaching key friendship social skills such as conversation skills, listening skills, playing fair, accepting others, conflict res

Work on social skills in a delicious way! This packet will have your students hungry to use their good social skills. There are activities for: Problem Solving, Expected and Unexpected Behaviors, and Perspective Taking.
Each student is given a burger mat. As students draw cards and respond the t

The movie Inside Out is a fantastic way to teach children about feelings and emotional regulation!
Use this Inside Feelings booklet to explore the feeling characters in Inside Out (Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear).
This booklet can be used with or without the movie. Links to video clips to

This growth mindset SEL curriculum includes 5 detailed, research-based lessons filled with hands-on and mindful activities that teach children about their elastic brain, a fixed and growth mindset, perseverance, learning from mistakes, failures, challenges, and the power of YET. The lessons and acti

Lots of students have difficulty following directions, but not all directions are the same. Some struggle with motor-skill-based directions, while others struggle with cognitive directions, such as those involving basic concepts or basic math/reading tasks. That’s where this game can help! It can h

Solve It! is a packet targeting problem solving, deductive reasoning, and cause/effect. It is perfect for speech and language therapists and special educators. It is detective-themed and 50 pages long.
It includes:
•What Might Happen Next? - 30 cause and effect cards. Students try to guess what wil

UPDATED 11/20/13 to be OLWEUS compatible.
This 38 page Mini Unit was created to teach lower elementary students how to help keep their school Bully Free. Your students will love the interactive, whole group activities included in this unit. ***They really love the printable bracelets as well!!! : )

“My Calm Tools Keychain: A Teaching Tool and Visual Prompt” can be used to teach, practice and eventually prompt the younger, more behaviorally challenged student to use positive replacement behaviors as an alternative to acting out. It presents visual and written examples of strategies the studen

This Career Bingo game is great for a fun elementary school counseling career education lesson! Includes 30 unique bingo cards, 24 community helper description cards with 3 clues/facts per career to teach students about interests/work environment of the careers listed, and bingo markers with career

Anger management is a vital skill for our students. Many kids are overpowered by intense emotions and need to be taught how to respond when they are frustrated.
I've had a lot of success teaching my students anger management strategies through games and activities based off of picture books.
The a

This emotions unit includes activities, printables, posters, and more to make emotional learning fun and accessible for your students! Teachers (SLPs, counselors, and social workers, too!) devote much time helping students understand and process their emotions. To support you in this important endea

This activity packed literature unit for What Do You Do With a Problem by Kobi Yamada is a perfect for 1st-4th grade. This new picture book works perfectly in conjunction with What Do You Do With an Idea. The activities in the literature companion focus more on the concepts presented in the story

Get BOTH Super Social Skills and Princess Social Skills at a discounted combo price!
These units were designed to accompany Social Skills Homework for a Year
This bundle includes BOTH Super Social Skills and Prince and Princess Social Skills!
For each unit in this bundle you will get lessons about

This growth mindset lesson is a companion to the book "Giraffes Can't Dance" by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees. This book is about how the giraffe sees himself and how others see him. You will need to own, purchase, or be able to borrow this book to use this lesson.
In this growth mindset lesso

Interactive activities that help children with Autism and other social cognitive deficits improve perspective taking and understanding of emotions. The materials in this product include over 25 realistic scenarios that challenge students to "make a smart guess" and decide how another person might f

This is a read-aloud and follow up growth mindset lesson using the book; The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubenstein. You will need to have, purchase, or be able to borrow this book in order to teach this lesson.
The goal of this growth mindset lesson is to teach students tha